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July 25, 2017

Ceiba Digitized Church Records 1840 - 1978

As I move forward in transcribing more records for different municipalities, I am discovering regions where I do not believe I have any ancestors but also how vast this island actually is. While I see many comment that slavery existed on the eastern part of the island, the truth is that it existed everywhere equally around the island. There is no exclusive place nor have I come across a region where I have not seen slaves or former slaves in the records. I want to remove that myth from everyone's mind.

So for the municipality of Ceiba, in Puerto Rico, it founded in 1838, and the name of the church for this town is San Antonio de Padua. The municipality can be found along the northeastern coast of the island south of Fajardo. There are not a vast number of church records but the collection is complete. I found that many books were mislabeled and the catalog has the wrong years listed. These are all corrected below.

The digitized church records are as follows with the first book containing 9 different books:

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I have been researching my ancestry since the early 1990’s
and I’m an avid genealogist. Many ask why I share information freely. Well, I am a
firm believer that every person has a right to know and not be blocked from finding
out who they are. People who are adopted, an unknown parent, grandparents, not
knowing their culture, and the worst, loss of history due to the ugliness of
slavery. I share the information in memory of my father, Luis Bayala Delgado, who always advised me that to know
your family and history is to know yourself. Our daily evening joke was him asking me, "How many muertitos did you bother today?". Hope these posts will lead you to a successful journey.

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